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If you look at the numbers, Golang has 2000+ contributors, while Rust has 5000+

Golang's core dev team is something like 30 people.

So Rust does have the resources.




The amount of contributors is a totally meaningless metric.

1. Not every contributor contributes equally. Some contributors work full time on the project, some work a few hours a month.

2. The amount of contributors says nothing about what resources are actually required. Rust is, no doubt, a more complex language than go and is also evolving faster.

3. The amount of contributors says nothing about the amount of contributors maintaining very niche parts of the ecosystem.




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